EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6

MacCorkle's Full Outline and Bible Translation Text
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I.         CHAPTER SIX - The Church As The Army Of Christ

A.        The Roles Planned in His Army 6:1-9

1.        The Church Army's Order for its Families 6:1-4

2.        The Church Army's Order for its Workers 6:6-9

1 Children, make a habit of obeying your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 'Honor your father and mother,' for this is the first commandment with a promise, 3 so that it may be well with each one of you and so that you may live a long time upon the earth. 4 Fathers, stop provoking your children to anger. Rather, develop them by the training and preventative caution the Lord approves of. 5 You who are in the bond-service role, give obedience to your masters in terms of the sphere of the flesh. Give it with fear and trembling. Give it with singleness of heart, as to Christ. 6 Do not give it with eye service, as men pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing God's will from the heart. 7 Make a habit of serving with a ready good will, as to the Lord and not to men, 8 because you are aware that whatever good thing each man does, that he will get back from the Lord, whether he be a bondman or a freeman. 9 Masters, also, practice the same toward bondservants. Give up threatening since you are aware that the Lord is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him.

B.        The Church's Opposition Identified 6:10-12
(The Army is Opposed by Satan)

1.        Soldiers Must Be Raised Up and Made Spiritually Strong 6:10

2.        Soldiers Must Make A Spiritual Stand As An Army 6:11

3.        Soldiers Must Stand Spiritually Sharp As An Army 6:12

10 Finally, allow the Lord to empower you constantly in Himself with the full force of His strength. 11 Put on the complete armor that God provides so that you may be able to stand successfully against the strategies of the devil. 12 This is necessary because our wrestling match is not with flesh and blood. It is rather with the rulers, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of this spiritual darkness, with the deadly evil spiritual forces in the heavenly places.

 

C.        The Church's Offense Indicated 6:13-18

1.        The Army Has Its Own Offense to Mount 6:13-15

2.        The Church's Call to Spiritual Arms 6:16-18

 

13 On account of this confrontation, take up the complete armor God provides so that you might have the capacity to withstand in the evil day, and having done all necessary things to stand firm. 14 Stand firm then, belted about your waist with truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with readiness to go with the good news about peace. 16 In addition to these three, when you have taken up the shield, which is the faith. You will be equipped to extinguish all the blazing arrows of the wicked one. 17 Take up, also, salvation's helmet, and the Spirit's sword, which is the spoken Word of God. 18 Throughout the entire contest pray through the Spirit in all seasons with all prayer and petition. With respect to this praying watch persistently, praying for all the other soldiers.

 

D.        The Church's Oversight Included 6:19-24
(The Army Must Recognize Its Oversight)

1.        Oversight at the Apostolic Level 6:19-20

2.        Oversight at the Sub-Apostolic Level 6:21-22

3.        Oversight at the Supportive Level 6:23-24

  

19 Pray on my behalf also that when I open my mouth, He might give me the opportunity for a message so that I may fearlessly make known the open sacred secret springing from the good news. 20 It is on behalf of this that I am ambassador in a chain, so that I may speak boldly about that secret, as I must. 21 Now Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful bondservant in the Lord, will make known everything about how I am faring in order that you may know the events that have happened to me. 22 I sent him to you for this very purpose that you might come to know these things about us and that he might encourage your hearts. 23 Peace and godly love, along with faith, be to the brothers from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 May this grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in [His] immortality.


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[1] The Writings of Douglas B. MacCorkle

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The Outline and Expanded Translation Text presented in this study is from Dr. MacCorkle's God's Special Secret - The Case Paul Argues in the Epistle to the Ephesians, Copyright 1993 by Douglas B. MacCorkle. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Published by the not-for-profit MacCorkle bible Ministries, Inc. Books, P.O. Box 320909, Cocoa Beach, Fl. 32932-0909. 

God's Own VIPS,  - How God uses Election, Foreknowledge, Predestination, Calling, Justification, and Glorification for our good. Copyright 1987 by Douglas B. MacCorkle. MacCorkle Bible Ministries, Inc., Printed in the United States of America. Published by the not-for-profit MacCorkle Bible Ministries, Inc. Books. P.O. 320909, Cocoa Beach, Fl 32932-0909. The complete text of God's Own VIPS is available on this website. 

Prophetic Peaks, Exposition of the Olivet Discourse. Copyright 1968 by Douglas B. MacCorkle. Third Printing 1972. Printed by Careers with Christ Press, Philadelphia College of Bible, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Printed in the United States of America. Published by the not-for-profit MacCorkle Bible Ministries, Inc. Books. P.O. 320909, Cocoa Beach, Fl 32932-0909. The complete text of Prophetic Peaks is available on this website. 

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